The Angels now essentially have Pujols for a six-year, $165 million contract for his age 36-41 seasons.
But FLC still doesn't think it's a terribad contract.
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It's sad to see Pujols, such a dynamic hitter and a future Hall of Famer on the back of his 2001-2011 stint with the St. Louis Cardinals, sitting at the top spot here of worst contracts, but his contract is a gigantic long-term drag on the Angels, and it's not going anyway anytime soon. The Angels paid Pujols as if they were going to get prime Albert for at least most of the contract, which started for his age-32 season coming off the worst -- albeit still All-Star level -- year of his career to that point, his 5.3-WAR 2011 season.
For this contract to not be a disaster, they needed at least five years of that 2011 Pujols. That wouldn't have made the contract a positive for the franchise, but at least they could point to the early years of the contract as the price they paid for suffering the end of the contract. Instead, the 2011 Pujols has been rarely seen in Los Angeles. Even his 40-homer season in 2015, declared in some circles as a personal renaissance, was an underwhelming season for Pujols; he posted a .307 on-base percentage, a dismal number for a player who has topped a .400 OBP in nine seasons.
This post was edited by Sixers on May 7 2016 03:41pm